Sherston's Progress

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Siegfried Sassoon. Sherston's Progress

Sherston's Progress

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PART I: RIVERS

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I couldn’t shake hands with a Colonel; And Majors I muchly detest: All Captains to regions infernal. I consign with both gusto and zest: To Subalterns blankly uncivil, I pronounce as my final belief, That the man most akin to the “divvle” Is that fiend—the Commander in Chief

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PART II: LIVERPOOL AND LIMERICK

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“I’d got lots of time to do it; but there wasn’t much to do. When I was made head-keeper—of the pheasants at the Zoo.”

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PART III: SHERSTON’S DIARY, FOUR MONTHS

“Beyond the rumour even of Paradise come, There, out of all remembrance, make our home.”

PART IV: FINAL EXPERIENCES

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“Across the vast blue shadow-sweeping plain. The gathered armies darken through the grain. Swinging curved swords and dragon-sculptured spears, Footmen, and tiger-hearted cavaliers.”

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Siegfried Sassoon

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“ I’d got lots of time to do it; but there wasn’t much to do

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